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Travis Jay

Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian, Travis Jay.

We kick off the interview and we speak about Travis’ heritage and some of the stories his immigrant grandparents told him about coming to Britain from The Caribbean. We speak too about the silent Tory supporters and how social media is a terrible indicator for what’s happening in the real world.

We speak about growing up in a house of comedy. Travis’ mother is none other than Angie Le Mar, so we speak about being the son of a successful comedian and about the moment when he realised that she wasn’t just a mother to him but was in fact, a successful comedian. The conversation then turns to us speaking about what kind of pressures that brought on Travis when he started comedy, both internally and externally.

Travis almost became a professional basketball player before he got into comedy, so we speak about that for a bit. Travis also reveals that while in college he wrote a lot of poetry and kind of stumbled into comedy.

We talk then for a bit about how comedians are always chasing the high in stand-up comedy, how you’re always trying to get that perfect night when everything is funny and the crowd adores you.

We chat about Travis’ first gig, where it was, some of the jokes he remembered and how it went.

Earlier this year Travis took part in a charity boxing match, so we really get into this, what it involved, the training, who the charity was, why he wanted to box and most importantly the actual match. I’m won’t bullshit you folks it was pretty amazing. I’ll add the YouTube footage below and you can see the Rocky parallels for yourselves. I was blown away when I saw it first and it was so cool to speak to Travis about it.

Rick Murtagh We speak about why everyone needs a healthy dose of nihilism in their lives from time to time, Getting out of the hustle and bustle of living in a big city, and why he took a break from his normal style of comedy and on the challenge of doing one-liner comedy for a year. Rick Murtagh’s Twitter: here Rick’s Instagram: here Rick’s Et ...…

Cally Beaton Cally Beaton with The Comedy Cast We speak about her past working with TV Production Companies Her amazing job that she does now And about how none other than Joan River told her to get into stand-up comedy. Cally Beaton’s Website: here Cally’s Twitter: here Get in Touch Don’t be shy, get in touch with The Comedy Cast or follow us ...…

Kevin Gootee Kevin Gootee with The Comedy Cast We speak about his Amazon series Comics Watching Comics, the idea behind the show and why he wanted to start it, And why the corporate world compelled him to get into comedy. Comics Watching on Comics on Amazon: here Comics Watching Comics Website: here CWC Facebook: here CWC Instagram: here CWC Tw ...…

Reem Edan Reem Edan with The Comedy Cast. We speak about growing up as the daughter of Iraqi immigrants and how it has provided so much material for her comedy, Her recent involvement in a record-breaking stand-up comedy event And the importance of knowing what the eggplant/aubergine emoji means. Oh and she’s also filmed with Elizabeth Banks, a ...…

Seamus Kelly Seamus Kelly with The Comedy Cast. We speak about why Irish people put a goat on top of some scaffolding, Where his cynical sense of humour comes from, Being open about his mental health issues and His experiences of running a comedy night in rural Ireland. Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast. We speak about how a Kilkenny ma ...…

Khairy The Comedy Cast with Khairy Khairy’s from Baltimore so we speak about the stand-up comedy scene there, The Wire gets a mention too, How he once braved a hurricane in nothing but his underwear, And how on his first night performing he did a 10 minute set to 200 people with just one joke. Khairy’s website: here YouTube: here Facebook: here ...…

The School of Hard Knock Knocks The Comedy Cast with Morry Morgan We speak about how Morry went from being a scientist to a successful businessman to co-founding Australia’s best stand-up comedy school, The School of Hard Knock Knocks, How to identify opportunities in niches, the nuts and bolts of teaching stand-up comedy, and how to say the do ...…

Matt Nagin Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Matt Nagin. We kick off the interview speaking about Matt’s surname, it’s close to naggin and all Irish people will know what one of them is (it’s a 200ml bottle of spirits if you don’t know) but it’s also close to a poisonous snake in ...…

Art Corral Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Art Corral. We kick off speaking about the Grizzly Grizzly Nation and how Art got the name thanks to the gang he was in. Could’ve been worse he tells me, it was almost Fozzy Bear. We get talking a bit about Art’s past, he was involved w ...…

Russell Hicks Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Russell Hicks. We kick off the interview with Russell being in the midst of his Edinburgh Fringe Festival experience, he tells me he’s been doing about 4-5 shows per days, his own solo show The Brain is in the Heart, as well as spots ...…

Duane Doogan Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Duane Doogan. We kick off the interview and speak about him moving over to London to pursue his comedic career. We talk about the difference in gigging regularly between Ireland and England; when you’re gigging a lot in Britain is there ...…

Yianni Agisilaou Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Australian stand-up comedian Yianni Agisilaou. We kick off the interview by speaking about how he once accidentally (so he says) put on his girlfriend’s pair of jeans and it lead to a profound questioning of the differences between men and women. We get tal ...…

Kwame Asante, photo by Mark Dawson Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Kwame Asante. We kick off the interview and speak about his ongoing Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Open Arms. We speak about the themes behind the show and his inspiration for it. We chat about it being Kwame’s f ...…

Francesco De Carlo Photo by Snej Shandarinova Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Italian stand-up comedian Francesco de Carlo. We kick off the interview by speaking about Francesco ongoing Edinburgh Fringe Show, Comfort Zone. He tells me about the idea behind the show and the themes that he speaks about duri ...…

Conor Drum Photo by Mark Dawson Photography Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Conor Drum. We kick off speaking about Conor’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe show All My Friends Are Dead, we speak about where the name comes from, don’t fear he’s friends aren’t actually dead, just metaphoric ...…

Stuart Black Photo by Steve Ullathorne Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Stuart Black. We kick off the interview in unusual fashion, with a bit of a preamble about who much Stuart reminds me of Britain’s greatest punk poet, Mr. John Cooper Clarke. We delve into me fiding out I’m la ...…

Maria Shehata Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Maria Shehata. We kick off the interview by speaking about Maria’s ongoing Edinburgh Show, Wisdomless a show about why she left LA for London after falling in love. She talks about what she both loves and hates about London and the d ...…

John Robertson, photo by Chris Schmidt Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Australian stand-up comedian John Robertson. John was a host of the videogame TV show a few years ago, Videogame Nation, I loved that show so we got straight onto that, how he got involved and what he liked and disliked about working f ...…

Andy Storey Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Andy Storey. We get straight in the Edinburgh Fringe stuff and speak about the show he’s putting on with Maddie Campion, Epoch. Andy’s the first ‘clean comedian’ we’ve had on so I was really interested to get to ask him some questions a ...…

Rory O’Hanlon Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Rory O’Hanlon. We start off asking about how the previews have been going in the run up to his show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We get talking about the whole idea behind having to have a theme for shows at the Fringe and ...…

Zahra Barri Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English comedian, Zahra Barri. We speak about her Irish and Egyptian roots, where she lives in London now and what it was like spending a few years in Saudi Arabia as a child. We talk then about what it was like growing up in a multicultural family. We chat abou ...…

Sheraz Yousaf Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English comedian, Sheraz Yousaf. We get straight into comedy as Sheraz had recently played some roles in a theatre production so I wanted to know was character acting something he’d like to pursue as well as comedy. We speak about Sheraz’ first gig and a comed ...…

Maddy Anholt Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English comedian/comedy character actor, Maddy Anholt. We dive straight into Maddy’s type of comedy, character comedy, what she loves about it and, if things go badly, how she can blame the characters if and when things go wrong. We go back to beginnings then a ...…

Turner Sparks Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Turner Sparks. We kick off the interview speaking about how he learned to play Gaelic (Irish) football while living in China. There’s no getting around it, Turner Sparks is a pretty cool name, so we get talking about about our porn s ...…

Ger Staunton Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian, Ger Staunton. We kick off the interview and we speak about an Edinburgh preview show Ger had just performed in London along with previous Comedy Cast guest Danny O’Brien. I ask him about the nature of preview shows and about how much a ...…

Ryan Bourassa Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian, Ryan Bourassa. We kick off the interview and we get straight into comedy. The comedy scene in Las Vegas has always been a strange one, so I asked Ryan for his opinion on it. I ask Ryan about the inspiration behind one of my favourit ...…

Jeremy Pace Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian, Jeremy Pace. We kick off the interview speaking about Missouri where Jeremy’s from, I know very little about the state so I was keen to know what it was like growing up there for Jeremy. We get talking then about the commonalities we ...…

Chris O’Neill Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian and Jesters Comedy Club chief Chris O’Neill. We kick off the interview speaking about where Chris in from in Ireland, a place called Naas. Although well known in Ireland, Naas’ reputation isn’t widely known, that’s probably a good thing ...…

Niamh Marron Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Niamh Marron. We kick off the interview speaking about coming from County Monaghan and why the county produces so many excellent stand-up comedians. And poultry farms. Niamh was a photography student before getting into comedy so we spok ...…

Tom Moran Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish actor, comedian and writer Tom Moran. We kick off the interview speaking about a favourite of Irishmen when they get talking; the weather. We get onto living in Dublin then and Tom tells a mad story about what he was expected to do to get a flat on Dublin’s ...…

Tiernan Douieb Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian and satirist, Tiernan Douieb. We kick off the interview with me telling Tiernan about how I sacrificed a Pavlova date to be with him and then we get into where he gets his awesome name from. Usually with the podcasts I tend to wait u ...…

Damien Kiely Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian, Damien Kiely. We kick off the interview with Damien telling me about his bittersweet weekend, a communion for one of his kids and a cat funeral. We speak about where Damien is from, what he calls the Harlem of Dublin. We talk about what ...…

Liam Breunle Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian, Liam Breunle. I came across Liam a few weeks ago on Instagram and when I read his bio I knew I had to get him on the show. Here it is: “Former accounts receivable for the Italian Mafia, Felon, ex-WWF wrestler, Biker…Comedian, What th ...…

Travis Jay Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian, Travis Jay. We kick off the interview and we speak about Travis’ heritage and some of the stories his immigrant grandparents told him about coming to Britain from The Caribbean. We speak too about the silent Tory supporters and how soci ...…

Chris Barnes Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American Stand-up Comedian, Chris Barnes. We kick off the interview and speak about where Chris is from, Long Island. He’s our second Long Islander is less than a month, which is pretty mad. We speak about what Chris did in college and how it helps him with his ...…

Steve Bennett Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish Comedian, Steve Bennett. Steve is Irish comedian of the year so we kick off the podcast by speaking about a tour he’d just completed in Australia on the back of that achievement. Steve hails from Laois in Ireland, so we speak about growing up there for a ...…

Wayne Carter Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Australian stand-up comedian, Wayne Carter. We kick off the interview speaking about the glamour of stand-up comedy, baked beans for dinner and spring cleaning. Wayne comes form a small rural area ins Australia, so we speak growing up there and about how it was ...…

Ola Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from British stand-up comedian Ola. We get straight into things and speak about his YouTube series of videos called Humanise Ola. We speak about his Nigerian heritage and where his name comes from and how holding onto that heritage is important to him. We speak about how and ...…

Tim Dillon Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Tim Dillon. We begin the interview with Tim educating me about Long Island because I barely know anything about it. We speak about a few of Tim’s old jobs and we discuss how it’s kind of weird that stand-ups are all really crap at sales ...…

Jonathan Sheehan Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Jonathan Sheehan. We kick off the conversation talking about my recent run in with a South African record producer company, sorry, it was just something I had to get off my chest. Jonathan hails from Tullamore in Co. Offaly so we cha ...…

Rosco McClelland Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Scottish stand-up comedian Rosco McClelland. Rosco’s from Scotland but he’d just been touring with some Irish comedians in Australia so we got talking about some of the new Irish slang he’d learned from them. We both then profess our undying and unwavering ...…

Wis Jantarasorn Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Scottish/Thai stand-up comedian Wis Jantarasorn. We kick off the interview speaking about Gok Wan & Alan Carr, Wis reveals why. Wis is from Leith, just north of Edinburgh so we get talking about that and how the small port town has changed over the years. We ...…

Kristin Key Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Kristin Key. We start off in unusual fashion, Kristin was doing her US Tax Returns, so I wanted to know more about American taxes and how comedians are taxed there. All I know about the American tax system comes from a certain Simpsons ...…

Alex Byrne Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Alex Byrne. We kick off the interview in unusual fashion and speak about peanut butter and jam, or jelly, sandwiches, I’d just discovered them and wanted to share their amazement with the world. Alex comes from Lucan in Dublin, so we get t ...…

Aidan Shields Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Aidan Shields. We kick off the interview by speaking about Dundalk, a town close to the Northern Irish border and how lucky Aidan is to have not taken the accent, nor that one of close rivals Drogheda. In Ireland the areas around the bo ...…

Angus Dunican Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Angus Dunican. We begin the interview with an old opening line Angus used to use to open his sets which I personally love. We speak a bit about Angus being brought up in Eastbourne, which in his words are both the retirement and suici ...…

Brian Gallagher Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Brian Gallagher. We start off the interview with Brian telling me that he’d been gigging the night before, then working and running on only 4 hours sleep. Brian’s from Limerick, so we have a chat about the city, how it’s finally cast ...…

Anna Clifford Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Anna Clifford. We kick off the interview speaking about Anna’s day job and how being a vegetarian doesn’t exactly help. We recorded this before St Patrick’s Day so we had a chat about the day, what it means for Irish people and what we ...…

Mel Kelly, photo by Sabine Meissner Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Mel Kelly. We kick off the interview speaking about where in Dublin Mel’s from and the purely coincidental parallels of his career starting in the beerhalles of Munich just like a certain famous Austrian. We speak ...…

Ross Leslie Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Scottish stand-up comedian Ross Leslie. We kick off the interview talking about our shared love for watching sky sports news alone and in our shorts before getting onto Ross’ upcoming Glasgow Comedy Festival show and some of the new material he’s written for it. ...…

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